The Biographical Dictionary of America/Baxter, John

​BAXTER, John, jurist, was born in North Carolina in 1819. He practised law in North Carolina until 1857, when he took up his residence in Knoxville, Tenn. He was several times elected to the house of representatives of the state legislature, was speaker, and a judge of the supreme court. He was a firm Union man during the civil war, and a member of the Republican party. He acted as chairman of the judiciary committee of the state constitutional convention in 1870, and in 1877 was made a judge of the sixth judicial district by President Hayes. He died April 2, 1886.

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